Food for thought . . . in small tasty bites.

In honor of Banned Books Week

The copy of Ulysses that my grandfather bought in Paris in 1928, at which time it was banned in the US.

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He was, of course, much smarter and more literate than his granddaughter, but I enjoy displaying the books I inherited from him so I look well-read. Biography of Henry James? History of the English Speaking Peoples?* Of course! Um… how about that Peyton Manning!?

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*Clarence was actually my Jewish grandfather, though his reading tastes tended toward the WASPy and Anglophile. My Christian grandfather, on the other hand, was a big-ass Zionist and Nazi-conspiracy-theorist. And you wonder why I’m confused!